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(19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 29).

5 Geo. 4. c. 113

6 & 7 Vict.

c. 98.

36 & 37 Vict.

c. 59.

36 & 37 Vict.

c. 88.

39 & 40 Vict. c. 46.

42 & 43 Vict. c. 38.

Forgery of certain documents with intent

Forgery.

(a) any valuable security or assignment thereof or indorsement thereon, or where the valuable security is a bill of exchange, any acceptance thereof;

(b) any document of title to lands or any assignment thereof or indorsement thereon;

(c) any document of title to goods or any assignment thereof or indorsement thereon;

(d) any power of attorney or other authority to transfer any share or interest in any stock, annuity or public fund of the United Kingdom or any part of His Majesty's dominions or of any foreign state or country or to transfer any share or interest in the debt of any public body, company or society, British or foreign, or in the capital stock of any such company or society, or to receive any dividend or money payable in respect of such share or interest or any attestation of any such power of attorney or other authority;

(e) any entry in any book or register which is evidence of the title of any person to any share or interest hereinbefore mentioned or any dividend interest payable in respect thereof;

or

(f) any policy of insurance or any assignment thereof or indorsement thereon;

(g) any charter party or any assignment thereof;

(h) any declaration, warrant, order, affidavit, affirmation, certificate or other document required or authorized to be made by or for the purposes of the Government Annuities Act, 1929, or by the National Debt Commissioners acting under the authority of the said Act;

(i) any certificate, certificate of valuation, sentence or decree of condemnation or restitution, or any copy of such sentence or decree, or any receipt required by the Slave Trade Acts.

5. (1) Forgery, committed with intent to defraud or deceive, shall be felony and punishable with imprisonment for life, if committed in respect of any document whatsoever having thereupon or affixed thereto the stamp or impression

to defraud

or deceive.

3 & 4 Geo. 5,

c. 27, s. 3.

of the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Privy Seal, any privy signet of His Majesty, His Majesty's

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